Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 1565121937.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story for older children: ten year old Miguel isn't sure he wants his aunt to stay - maybe she's a little bit magic or a little bit crazy - when she comes from the Dominican Republic to live with him and his mother and sisters in Vermont following his parents' divorce. SIGNED on the title page. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-375-802150.

New York: Grove Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Very uncommon hardcover edition of the first book by this writer (who spent her earliest years in her parents' native Dominican Republic) to be published by a major press. Since this was issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover, the hardcover printing was very small. The central section of these poems is called 'housekeeping; and reconstruct her experiences as her mother teaches her housewifery skills, there is the underlying irony that 'at 33' Alvarez is not the 'heroine of her mother's stories' for she has neither a house, husband nor children. A title in the Grove Press Poetry Series edited by Robert Pack. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-394-538552.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. SIGNED first edition - Uncommon advance issue of her highly praised first novel, winner of the Pen/Oakland Award. SIGNED by the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. SIGNED on the title page. Novel written for young adults or older children. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer and poet: "This zesty, daring novel is about what happens when an author really does 'write what she knows.' At once funny and poignant, intellectual and gossipy, lighthearted and layered in meaning." SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 1565121570.

New York: Plume, (1999). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-452-280672.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A delightful children's book based on legends in the author's native country of the Dominican Republic. It "begins as Papa returns home from a trip to the city with an overflowing basket of oranges, like those he used to eat in his native Spain. That night, after Papa warns the family that they may have to abandon their failing olive farm, young Maria dreams of planting orange seeds, and a beautiful lady with a crown of stars, Altagracia, materializes in an orange-laden grove.. . Argentina-born illustrator Vidal uses small brushes and gouache to create lovely, stylized folk-art-style paintings" [Booklist] SIGNED on the title page by Julia Alvarez. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-375924256.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subttled: The whole truth concerning the redoubtful adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, Master Mariner. Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis. 298 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel with a city as the central character - "Tocaia Grande, a city in the Bahian backlands of Brazil's cacao region." Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-553051741.

New York: Bantam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exuberant story of love and freedom triumphant set during festival time in the Brazilian city of Bahia. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. "The statue of Santa Barbara of the Thunder, most holy of icons, is bound for the city of Bahia to be enshrined at the Museum of Sacred Art. Despite all precautions, however, the unthinkable has happened: The lovely statue has vanished." But not stolen: St Barbara has come to live. Glossary. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-553-095374.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subttled: The whole truth concerning the redoubtful adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, Master Mariner. Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis. 298 pp.

New York: Warner, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery by this Chicano writer, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dustjacket praise from Hillerman, Van Giesen, Sandra West Prowell among others. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518433.

Berkeley, CA: Tonatiuh - Quinto Sol International, Publishers, 1982. First collection of short stories by this Latino author who was awarded the National Medal of the Arts for literature in 2001. A trade paperback original, this copy is in the later binding of glossy white paper. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-89229-0099.

New York: Warner, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in New Mexico, featuring Sonny Baca, by this award-winning Chicano writer. Map of Onate's route in 1598. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-446-523747.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young man's search for his father and a city coming to grips with the complexities of modern urban development. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-13590.

New York: Warner, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first mystery by this Chicano writer, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dustjacket praise from Hillerman, Van Giesen, Sandra West Prowell among others. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518433.

Berkeley, CA: Tonatiuh - Quinto Sol International, Publishers, 1982. First collection of short stories by this Latino author who was awarded the National Medal of the Arts for literature in 2001. A trade paperback original, this copy is in the later binding of glossy white paper. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-89229-0099.

New York: Warner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this New Mexican writers who was one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. Thirty years after Amado was banished to the desert, he returns calling himself "Jalamanta," one who strips away the veils that blind the soul. SIGNED on the title page. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-446520241.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contributors include Julia Alvarez, Cherie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, Pat Mora, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: Lucha Corpi at her contribution "Four, Free and Illegal"; Cherie Moraga at her poem "New Mexican Confession" and Pat Mora at the poem "Uncoiling." Foreword by Maria Hinojosa and extensive biographical notes on the contributors. 283 pp. ISBN: 1573220094.

Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingue (2005). SIGNED first edition - A collection of English poems with facing Spanish translations by Aragon, poems which move between Aragon's native San Francisco and Spain, between past and present. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication at Notre Dame where Aragon was a visiting fellow. 109 pp. ISBN: 9781931010283.

New York: Scribner, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by the author of "Ask a Mexican." This weaves Gustavo's family story with the history of Orange County and the current immigrant experience. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Gracias" 269 pp. ISBN: 1416540040.

New York: Aventura/Vintage, 1983. The first publication in the US of this novel which was banned in El Salvador, and which result in the author being forced into exile. Translated by Bill Brow.

New York: Summit Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A novel of late15th century Spain - a time of discovery and exploration, of the Inquisition and war - by one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers. ISBN: 0-671-644998.

New York: Morrow, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A recreation of medieval Spain by one of Mexico's foremost poets and novelists. Laura Esquival called this "dazzling and provocative.. a dazzling rendition of period and place.". ISBN: 0-688-143423.

New York: New Directions, 1987. Two long narrative poems that revolve around the figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Introduction by Denise Levertov. Glossary. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-10324.

New York: New Directions, 1987. Two long narrative poems that revolve around the figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Introduction by Denise Levertov. Glossary. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-10324.